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| == What you need to start ==
| | #redirect [[Step-by-step Installation Guide for Ubuntu]] |
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| *[http://www.ubuntu.com/products/GetUbuntu/download#lts Ubuntu 6.06 LTS server CD]
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| *A test x86 desktop computer, keyboard, monitor, mouse, and firewalled internet connection.
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| *One hour of time. (seriously!)
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| == Directions ==
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| === Install Ubuntu ===
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| Start computer and use F12 to boot from CD.
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| Select '''Install to hard drive'''.
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| Select your '''language''', '''country''', and '''keyboard layout''' (i.e. English, United States, American English)
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| Select '''[http://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html manually configure]''' and set an IP address (or autoconfig if you don't know).
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| Enter your servername (i.e. moodletest)
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| Select to '''manually edit the partition table'''. I’m doing my testing on a standard 40GB harddrive and will modify these sizes for production.
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| :<table>
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| :<tr><td width=%10>/boot</td><td width=%10>ext3</td><td align=right width=%10>200MB</td><td align=center width=%10>bootable</td>
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| <td>([http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-4-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-whatis.html may need to be under cylinder 1024 on your harddrive to be bootable])</td></tr>
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| :<tr><td>/</td><td>ext3</td><td align=right>10GB</td><td></td><td>(files are relatively static)</td></tr>
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| :<tr><td>swap</td><td></td><td align=right>4GB</td><td></td>
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| <td>(4xRAM if you don't have much memory, down to 1xRAM if you have gobs of memory)</td></tr>
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| :<tr><td>/var</td><td>ext3</td><td align=right>26GB</td><td></td><td>(variable content – uses rest of the drive)</td></tr>
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| :</table>
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| Select your '''timezone'''. (i.e. Central)
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| Set clock to '''Universal Time'''.
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| Enter Administrators '''full name'''. (i.e. Joe Smith)
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| Enter '''account name'''. (i.e. joesmith)
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| Enter a secure password. (‘abcde’ is not a good one!)
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| Let the computer restart.
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| Log in your account.
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| Edit the ''/etc/apt/sources.list'' file. Remove the ''#'' mark on lines 22 and 38 to enable access to the universe package source and universe security updates. You will need to re-enter your account password when ''sudo'' asks for it.
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| <pre>
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| sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
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| </pre>
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| Now to get all the security updates.
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| <pre>
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| sudo apt-get update
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| sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
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| </pre>
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| Normally you would just use ''[http://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/C/apt-get.html sudo apt-get upgrade]''.
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| And reboot to run on the new kernel!
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| <pre>
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| sudo reboot
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| </pre>
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| === Install MySQL (skip Postgresql) ===
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| At this point we'll need to log in again to the server and type:
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| <pre>
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| sudo apt-get install mysql-server php5-mysql
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| </pre>
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| Press ''Y'' to continue the install.
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| Replace the following string ''NewRootDatabasePassword'' with a secure password of your own choosing.
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| There is no space between the ''-p'' and the password on the second command.
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| <pre>
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| mysqladmin –u root password NewRootDatabasePassword
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| mysqladmin -u root -h localhost password NewRootDatabasePassword -pNewRootDatabasePassword
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| </pre>
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| We now need to create the Moodle database and Moodle user in MySQL.
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| The mysql command will prompt for your ''NewRootDatabasePassword'' (from above).
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| Replace ''NewMoodleDatabasePassword'' with a secure password of your own choosing.
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| <pre>
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| mysql -u root -p
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| > CREATE DATABASE moodle DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_unicode_ci;
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| > GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON moodle.* TO moodleuser@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'NewMoodleDatabasePassword';
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| > GRANT SELECT,LOCK TABLES on moodle.* TO moodlebackup@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'MoodleBackupPassword';
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| > FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
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| > QUIT
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| </pre>
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| The above also creates a backup user moodlebackup so that you can use ''mysqldump'' to make database backups without accident.
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| === Install Postgresql (skip MySQL) ===
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| At this point we'll need to log in again to the server and type:
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| <pre>
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| sudo apt-get install postgresql-8.1 php5-pgsql
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| </pre>
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| Press Y to continue the install.
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| We now need to create the database user 'moodle'.
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| <pre>
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| sudo -u postgres createuser -D -A -P moodle
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| </pre>
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| Enter in a ''NewMoodleDatabasePassword here'', then answer 'N' to the question.
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| We now need to create the database 'moodle' for the user 'moodle'. You'll need to enter the password that you just created.
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| <pre>
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| sudo -u postgres createdb -E utf8 -O moodle moodle
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| </pre>
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| Let's now secure the postgresql database with an admin password.
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| <pre>
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| sudo -u postgres psql template1
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| # ALTER USER postgres WITH PASSWORD 'NewAdminDatabasePassword';
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| # \q
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| </pre>
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| Edit the file '/etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf' and on line 79 change the words ''ident sameuser'' to ''md5''.
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| <pre>
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| sudo nano /etc/postgresql/8.1/main/pg_hba.conf
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| </pre>
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| Restart the database so everything is fine.
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| <pre>
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| sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-8.1 restart
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| </pre>
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| === Install Apache ===
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| The following mod-security, ldap, and odbc libraries are optional.
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| <pre>
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| sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-gd
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| sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-security php5-ldap php5-odbc
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| </pre>
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| Restart Apache
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| <pre>
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| sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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| </pre>
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| === Install other software ===
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| On the command line, type:
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| <pre>
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| sudo apt-get install ntp-simple openssh-server unattended-upgrades
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| sudo apt-get install unzip zip aspell-en aspell-fr aspell-de aspell-es
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| sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl php5-xmlrpc
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| sudo apt-get install clamav-base clamav-freshclam clamav
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| </pre>
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| Press ''Y'' to continue the install after each of these apt-get commands.
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| The clamav package will support virus checking on file uploads into Moodle. May have to run it again to configure properly.
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| Additional languages are available for aspell.
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| === Install Moodle ===
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| On the command line, type:
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| <pre>
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| cd /var/www
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| sudo wget http://download.moodle.org/stable19/moodle-latest-19.tgz
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| sudo tar -zxf moodle-latest-19.tgz
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| ----
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| in ubuntu 8.04 it should be:
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| sudo tar zxf moodle-latest-19.tgz
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| ----
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| sudo mkdir /var/moodledata
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| sudo chown -R www-data.www-data /var/moodledata
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| </pre>
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| We now need to edit the location of the default web site. On lines five and ten, replace ''/var/www/'' with ''/var/www/moodle/''. Restart Apache. (See page comments for more details on this instruction.)
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| <pre>
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| sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-available/default
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| sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
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| </pre>
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| === Configure Moodle website ===
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| ifconfig (look for your server’s ip address on the 2nd line)
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| On another computer open a web browser and put in your server address
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| Complete the Moodle install using a secure username and password
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| Go to a bar for a few hours.
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| Come back and tell your boss that you FINALLY got the test server running.
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| == Other Resources ==
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| * Setting up the [http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect_setup_ubuntu_6.06 Perfect Ubuntu 6.06 server]
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| * Ubuntu 6.06 Server Guide - [http://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/C/index.html HTML] [http://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/pdf/ubuntu/C/serverguide.pdf PDF]
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| * Ubuntu - [http://help.ubuntu.com/community/Security 1] [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9002691 2] security
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| * Debian - [http://www.debian.org/security/ 1] [http://www.us.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#securing 2] security
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| * Linux - [http://www.linux-sec.net/ 1] [http://www.puschitz.com/SecuringLinux.shtml 2] [http://www.linuxsecurity.com/docs/LDP/Security-HOWTO/ 3] security
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| * MySQL - [http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/security.html 1] [http://www.securityfocus.com/infocus/1667 2] security
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| * Apache - [http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/misc/security_tips.html 1] [http://www.cisecurity.org/bench_apache.html 2] security
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| * [http://www.modsecurity.org/documentation/index.html Modsecurity apache2 module]
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| * Another [http://help.ubuntu.com/community/MySQLMoodle Ubuntu and Moodle install] document
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| * Moodle [[Security]]
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| [[Category:Administrator]]
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| [[Category:Installation|Ubuntu]]
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